It Is Considered to Be Acceptable for Research Participants to Be

question 6

Multiple Choice

It is considered to be acceptable for research participants to be exposed to risk or discomfort ____.

• A) when the risk and discomfort is temporary and only occurs during the experiment
• B) only when minimal risk and discomfort are outweighed by the benefit to the knowledge base and to human welfare
• C) when nonhuman participants are also used as a comparison
• D) when participants are paid for their involvement with the study before participating

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Definitions:

Variables Of Interest

Specific items or characteristics that researchers aim to study, measure or manipulate within a study.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter with a specified level of confidence.

Expected Value

The long-run average value of a random variable over many independent trials.

Simple Linear Regression

A method used in statistics to quantify and analyze the linear relationship between two quantitative variables, specifically one predictor and one response variable.